“Over the last 10 years a new play development culture – based on American models – has taken root in British theatres and it is now so firmly embedded that it has become an industry in itself. … Access is important, but what’s the point of providing access to schemes to develop plays but not to the stages themselves? It’s like teaching people to swim but then denying them access to swimming pools. There is something cockeyed about a theatre culture that has put so many structures in place to develop plays and so few to stage them.”